Mr. Justice Harlan, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court. The averment in the bill that the parties were citizens of different States was sufficient to make a prima facie case of jurisdiction so far as it depended on citizenship. While under the judiciary act of 1789 an issue as to the fact of citizenship c…
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